Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Synonyms: Amarula Sowerby 1842, Hydrognoma Gistl 1848, Melanea Lamarck 1800, Melania Lamarck 1800, Melas Montfort 1810, Spirilla Humphrey in Gray 1847, Tiaropsis Brot 1871
Parent taxon: Thiarinae according to K. C.. Vaught et al. 1989
See also Ladd 1972, Ladd 1982, Nagao 1928, Oostingh 1935, Sowerby 1821 and Wagner 2023
Sister taxa: Brotia, Coptostylus, Cornetia, Fijidoma, Melanoides, Tarebia
Subtaxa: Melania abbreviata Melania acutestriata Melania alberti Melania blainvillii Melania buccinalis Melania bullia Melania canicularis Melania claibornensis Melania clavula Melania concentrica Melania decussata Melania dubia Melania dunkeri Melania fettkei Melania formosa Melania fragilis Melania herklotsi Melania hoernesi Melania hordacea Melania hunteri Melania inquinata Melania laevigata Melania longissima Melania marginata Melania miikensis Melania multistriata Melania nitida Melania obovata Melania packardi Melania partschii Melania plicata Melania plicatula Melania plieningeri Melania polita Melania schlotheimii Melania semiplicata Melania semistriata Melania strigillata Melania taylori Melania tenuiplica Melania tenuis Melania texata Melania triticea Melania vaderensis Thiara (Balanocochlis) Thiara (Plotia) Thiara (Sermyla) Thiara (Setaeara) Thiara scabra Thiara smartsvillensis Thiara tjemoroensis Thiara wheatlandensis
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), Japan (2), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene of India (1), Indonesia (17)
• Miocene of Indonesia (5), Spain (1)
• Eocene of Brazil (1), France (6), Indonesia (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (48), United States (5: Alabama, California, Washington)
• Paleogene of Japan (2)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Canada (5: Alberta), France (3)
• Jurassic of France (1), Luxembourg (1)
• Triassic of Austria (4), Germany (1), Italy (1)
Total: 111 collections including 143 occurrences
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